Emma Enderby is director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin since May 2024. She is a curator, writer, and lecturer of modern and contemporary art. The lecture will focus on the trajectory of Enderby’s curatorial practice, using exhibitions and projects as case studies and presenting the next stage for KW Institute of Contemporary Art.

From 2021 to 2024, Emma Enderby was Chief Curator of the department Programs and Research at Haus der Kunst, Munich, where she curated Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, Tony Cokes: Fragments, or just Moments, and a decentralized exhibition with Rirkrit Tiravanija. Previously, as Chief Curator at The Shed, New York, the British curator worked on founding the new institution and curated the retrospective exhibition Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, as well as Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matters, Ian Cheng: Life after BOB and exhibition projects with Trisha Donnelly, Tony Cokes, Oscar Murillo, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Enderby also held positions in institutions such as Public Art Fund, where she curated the group exhibitions Commercial Break and The Language of Things, as well as Tauba Auerbach: Flow Separation, among others. As a curator at the Serpentine Galleries, London, she organized numerous exhibitions including Hilma af Klint, Rachel Rose, Trisha Donnelly, and Adrián Villa Rojas. The curator further works as a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at several universities and institutions, as well as an editor and writer for multiple publications and catalogues. She holds degrees from University College London and University of Oxford.